Major League Baseball All-Star Game Election Day and voting changes close, per reports

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association could agree to overhaul All-Star Game voting with a new Election Day that would leave top vote-getters at each position - following standard online voting - as "finalists," according to reports from ESPN.com's Jeff Passan and NYPost.com's Joel Sherman.

As @JeffPassan writes, the sides are close to an agreement on ASG vote change that MLB was upset union did not agree to last year, with hopes large social media campaigns by those running would juice interest/excitement. Wrote on it last May https://t.co/yE7nbM3Mbehttps://t.co/gvQrZGgpCr

As part of sweeping changes to the collective bargaining agreement, increasingly likely to be ratified by Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association, the sides are planning to overhaul All-Star voting and create an Election Day for fans to pick the starters, major league sources familiar with the plan told ESPN.

An All-Star Election Day has been discussed but never implemented. Under the proposed plan, starting this year the standard online voting would take place. Upon its completion, the top three vote-getters at each position in each league would be on the ballot on Election Day, and whichever players received the most votes on that single day would determine the All-Star starters, according to sources.

The Cincinnati Reds had three infielders - first baseman Joey Votto, second baseman Scooter Gennett and third baseman Eugenio Suarez - who were 2018 All-Stars.